Team 3: Local area notice screen
Local people are able to post bulletins, for sales, events, whatever is happening in their neighbourhood. Users access the system using a handheld app choosing to initiate face recognition, bluetooth id or wifi mac and geolocation identification methods.

Each team member received a Raspberry Pi each with the Win10 IoT Core from Microsoft.

The IBM Global Entrepreneur Program offers startups $24K USD of SoftLayer (IaaS) and Bluemix (PaaS) cloud credits over a 12 month period. Not only do you get a 12 month subscription to IBM’s cloud, you also receive mentoring from IBM experts, to help you scale, launch, grow and accelerate your business! IBM helps startups build from the ground up. By offering access to enterprise-grade technology, including a huge depth of services like Watson, IoT, and Mobile and connecting startups to technical and business experts, IBM leads startups through building, launching and scaling new ideas. IBM sets startups up for success by connecting them to business mentors, top-notch technology and a global network of enterprise clients needed to drive growth at any stage. Take advantage of this great program today! ibm.com/isv/startup

Hackerspace Adelaide team play award
Xiaogang Dong (Norm), was the winner of the Hackerspace Adelaide team play award from Team 1. Chosen for fitting in with a room of strangers, working closely in a team with others and good problem-solving skills to help his team.

The Prize
The Hackerspace Adelaide team play award includes a $100, 12month membership of Hackerspace Adelaide and a hand made Hackerspace Adelaide T-Shirt.

Fee Plumley, Technoevangelist at Reallybigroadtrip who conducted some wounderful interviews and hosted our live stream broadcast.

23rd April, Adelaide’s first Internet of Things (IoT) Hackathon

Adelaide Makerspace
The aim of this event was to promote the importance of the maker community, and the need to establish an Adelaide Makerspace.

If a small event like this can be organised over a few weeks, where a dozen people in a room can create three very unique ideas for building something that matters, what then could a full-time Makerspace achieved with a city of makers and artists.

If we truly want an innovative and a creative community that inspires people to pursue further education, the arts, or create new ventures in Adelaide we need to get local people together making new and interesting things. Imagine if there was an Adelaide Makerspace with specialist equipment, tools and space for makers and artists from across Adelaide could go any time of the day or week to create and collaborate with others.

The other people who made this happen:
A very special thanks to the following individuals who helped make this event happen:

]]>http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2016/04/24/adelaide-iot-hackthon-2016/feed/2With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility… or Moneyhttp://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2016/04/23/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility-or-money/
http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2016/04/23/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility-or-money/#respondSat, 23 Apr 2016 03:15:57 +0000http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/?p=871Continue reading →]]>There are three main groups under way today. From “Internet of Paparazzi” to recycling, and municipal water and works we have a great variety of projects. Here are the Smart Studio, a fish bowl of innovation today.

Helping the paparazzi get more / better celebrity photos. Using IoT for … Evil? “You can’t have money fights without money.”

Helping our councils and community: City Wide Water Monitoring System.

Helping community and individuals who are at risk, recycling entrepreneurs.

Teams will develop a design concept for “Making something that matters” using a the Raspberry Pi Internet of Things Kit proudlysponsored by Microsoft

Prizes will be awarded to the winning team whose design concept best fits the theme: ‘making something that matters’:

Citizen Science – Study the effects of a behavior, build an open source instrumentation device.

Automation – Build a device that makes breakfast or buys laundry detergent when you’re running low. Automatically track stuff, automate any process, build a Me-robot to do your every whim

Assistive technologies – Build a project that helps others move better, see better, or live better. Whether that means exoskeletons, a better wheelchair, a braille display, or educational software, we want to see it.

Or any other idea you have to hack for social change! Leverage your talent and find solutions to address technology issues facing humanity today.

Along with other great prizes, the winning team will have access to the IBM Global Entrepreneur Program. The IBM Global Entrepreneur Program offers startups $24K USD of SoftLayer (IaaS) and Bluemix (PaaS) cloud credits, over a 12 month period. Not only do you get a 12 month subscription to IBM’s cloud, you also receive mentoring from IBM experts, to help you scale, launch, grow and accelerate your business!

IBM helps startups build from the ground up. By offering access to enterprise-grade technology, including a huge depth of services like Watson, IoT, and Mobile and connecting startups to technical and business experts, IBM leads startups through building, launching and scaling new ideas. IBM sets startups up for success by connecting them to business mentors, top-notch technology and a global network of enterprise clients needed to drive growth at any stage.

On 22nd Friday Night
We will coordinate teams to compete. But don’t worry if you haven’t got a team, we’ll also be running a speed-dating round, to help you form a team or match you up with one. We have limited spaces so if you don’t make a team, we are also running Hackerspace Adelaide | Hackaday World Create Day. Your ideas and enthusiasm matter.

Also on 23rd Saturday | Hackerspace Adelaide | Hackaday World Create Day

]]>http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2016/04/02/adelaide_iot_2016/feed/1Smart City Studiohttp://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2016/02/23/smart-city-studio/
http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2016/02/23/smart-city-studio/#commentsTue, 23 Feb 2016 09:52:42 +0000http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/?p=795Continue reading →]]>Hackerspace Adelaide is pleased to be supporting the Smart City Studio to help it connect with Makers, Hackers, Tinkerers and other community groups to be involved in the Internet of Things (IoT) innovation initiative in around the city of Adelaide.

The Smart City Studio was established in 2015 to grow the amount of Smart City and Internet of Things innovation being carried out in South Australia. The Studio is a facility available to established business, startup companies, community groups and other individuals interested in innovation.

The major role of the Studio is to offer assistance with development of IoT related businesses, to connect innovators with customers and champions, to offer a service where IoT developers can come for support and to increase the number of individuals involved in the field of Smart City development.

Some regular Hackerspace attendees had great success at Unleashed / Govhack this year, being presented with their awards on Sunday.

Robyn, Kylie and Damien won the “Renew Adelaide Creative Space” award with their Talking Heads project, scoring the space some assistance from Renew Adelaide. They also scored an honourable mention in the “Best Artistic Use of Open Data” category and won the Space a new Printrbot Simple, courtesy of Bilby CNC and Govhack! Get building everyone, before we have 3non-functional 3D printers!

Congratulations to Tamsyn for winning the Spirit of MOD Unleashed, for her assistance at the Machinery Of Data workshops.

Also Tobias, Daniel and Damien got the Coder’s Choice award for their Revive Survive application.

The easiest way to control a Crazyflie nano quadcopter is with a laptop and a PS3 controller (or similar), but tonight we played around trying to control it using the Android client. Took a bit of messing around, so here’s how we got it working.

Instead of installing the full Android SDK (ADT bundle) I tried the Android Studio. Only limitation is that I couldn’t find how to install built apps directly onto my phone, but installing with ADB or ssh was fine. Anyway, here’s what we did to get the client running:

Good luck controlling it.. it’s a bit slower to respond than running it on a laptop/bluetooth, but hopefully that’ll change as they update the Android app.

]]>http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/06/19/crazyflie-quadcopter-android/feed/4NASA SpaceApps challengehttp://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/05/13/nasa-spaceapps-challenge/
http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/05/13/nasa-spaceapps-challenge/#respondMon, 13 May 2013 02:43:43 +0000http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/?p=598Continue reading →]]>On the weekend of the 20th/21st of April Hackerspace Adelaide hosted the local site of the NASA SpaceApps Challenge. The idea of the weekend is to explore the data that NASA collect from their satellites, rovers and probes, and try and use it in a way that makes it easier for us to connect with.

Unsurprisingly, Hackerspace regulars were peppered through three teams that formed from the attendees. After being recently inspired by Mark‘s Project Horus balloon launches, our team (Steven Pickles, Jamie Mackenzie, Steven Clark & Simon Loffler) initially started work on a disposable emergency balloon that could be launched in times of fire, flood, plane crash or natural disaster and return image and position data to aid in search and recovery efforts.

Unfortunately, with the help of Jamie’s brain full of geometric equations, we quickly calculated that an affordable solution that delivered useful data in a timely fashion just wasn’t feasible.

A few despondent looks later, it was back to the challenge page for some more inspiration.

Having watched and rather enjoyed the livestream of the Curiosity Mars rover’s descent to the surface of the red planet, I floated the idea of using some of the rover’s temperature data in the Wish You Were Here challenge.

Looking into the actual readings I quite surprised to see that the temperatures ranged from around -70C to 7C. My colour/image oriented brain assumed that a red planet meant a hot planet, how wrong it was! The next question we asked was if there was anywhere on Earth that had a similar climate, and with that Mearth was born.

Pix jumped into action parsing the XML feeds from the rover (in the end we used another group’s JSON feed) and wrote a script to pick the closest matching city on Earth from a list of 500 possible candidates. I bootstrapped a Ruby on Rails app, pushed it to Github (for collaboration) and then onto Heroku (a cloud service for the app).

A few hours and pizza/beer/coffee later, and we had a prototype.

The last requirement of the challenge was to create a video describing our project.

At the end of the day, our group and one of the other Adelaide groups Moon Settler were selected as two of the four from Australia to go into the International round of voting.

As you can probably tell, we had an awesome time at the weekend and can highly recommend participating in it next year.

Special thanks go to the Adelaide organiser Sumen Rai for such a well managed weekend, and also Nicole Bromley for volunteering her time setting up / bringing us coffee and pizza and generally being lovely and smiley.

If you like the sound of this event, perhaps you should sign up to participate in the GovHack weekend coming up – a chance to mash government data into useful visualisations and web apps: uladl.com (don’t ask why it’s called unleashed).

Pix drawing some temperature data to the screen. The black lines are Earth’s maximum and minimum temperatures, the red lines are Mars’ maximum and minimum temperatures.

Presentation time!

The Adelaide SpaceApps challenge team.

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http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/05/13/nasa-spaceapps-challenge/feed/0Hackerspace at the Adelaide Mini Maker Fairehttp://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/04/07/hackerspace-at-the-adelaide-mini-maker-faire/
http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/04/07/hackerspace-at-the-adelaide-mini-maker-faire/#respondSun, 07 Apr 2013 04:08:45 +0000http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/?p=580It was an awesome day!! The organisers are saying anywhere between two thousand and four thousand people attended.

]]>http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/04/07/hackerspace-at-the-adelaide-mini-maker-faire/feed/0Linux.Conf.Au & Visit To Make, Hack, Voidhttp://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/04/07/linux-conf-au-visit-to-make-hack-void/
http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/2013/04/07/linux-conf-au-visit-to-make-hack-void/#respondSun, 07 Apr 2013 03:23:20 +0000http://hackerspace-adelaide.org.au/blog/?p=540Continue reading →]]>linux .conf.au this year was in Canberra and those from Hackerspace who went along had a great time.

One of the stand out talks for me was Denise Paolucci’s Overcoming Imposter Syndrome. Denise isn’t a Hackerspace person I just want to highlight her excellent talk. Her slides are up on Slide Share and you can download the video from the LCA mirror.

Pix gave a talk at the Blue Hackers BOF which unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend because I was at the Interactive Textiles BOF. If anyone has a photo could they please let me know so that I can include it in this post.

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are the main conference days. All the conference videos are available for download so if you didn’t make it this year you can still listen to some great talks.